Re: Packaging a rust program with a lot of crates

[Hartmut Goebel]

Am 15.07.23 um 17:10 schrieb Paul Collignan:
> It is a little bit different for Rust packages, as described in the 
> documentation:
> "In the rust ecosystem it is common for multiple incompatible versions of a package 
> to be used at any given time, so all package definitions should have a versioned suffix. 
> The versioned suffix is the left-most non-zero digit"
> If I understand this correctly, one should keep all packages from 0.1 to 0.46 
> (for example, if the versions are numbered like this). But from 1.1 to 1.46 you 
> only keep the last one.

This is correct. Anyhow, please keep in mind that the variable name for 
the 1.x package will stay "some-crate-1".

This follows the idea of semantic versioning, which rust follows.

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Hartmut Goebel

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